Edward Campion
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
February 21, 1992
(Phone: 202/453-8536)
Barbara Schwartz
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 713/483-5111)
RELEASE: 92-26
CREW ASSIGNMENTS ANNOUNCED FOR FUTURE SHUTTLE MISSIONS
Steven R. Nagel (Col., USAF) will command the
Spacelab-D2 mission, STS-55, scheduled for an early-1993
launch. This is a cooperative mission with the German Space
Agency to conduct research in robotics, materials processing
and life sciences. Nagel is a veteran of three previous
Space Shuttle missions, as a mission specialist on STS-51G
in June 1985, as Pilot on STS-61A in October 1985 and as
Commander on STS-37 in April 1991.
Pilot on the STS-55 mission will be Terrence T. "Tom"
Henricks (Col., USAF), who was Pilot on STS-44 in November
1991. Charles J. Precourt (Maj., USAF), astronaut class of
1990, is assigned as a mission specialist. This is his
first flight assignment.
Previously assigned crew members are Payload Commander
Jerry L. Ross (Col., USAF), mission specialist Bernard A.
Harris, Jr., M.D., and German payload specialists Hans
Schlegel and Ulrich Walter.
G. David Low, who served as a mission specialist on two
Shuttle flights, STS-32 in January 1990 and STS-43 in August
1991, will be Payload Commander on STS-57, which will carry
the commercial middeck augmentation module called SPACEHAB
and retrieve the European Retrievable Carrier. STS-57 is
scheduled for launch in mid-1993. Janice E. Voss, Ph.D., is
assigned to this flight as a mission specialist. This is
the first flight assignment for Voss, who is a member of the
astronaut 1990 class.
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Thomas D. Jones, Ph.D., will be a mission specialist on
the Space Radar Laboratory-01 flight, STS-60, in late 1993.
This is the first flight for Jones, also a member of the
1990 astronaut class. Linda M. Godwin, Ph.D., was assigned
in August 1991 as mission Payload Commander. SRL-01 will
acquire radar images of the Earth's surface for making maps
and interpreting geological features and resource studies.
Additional crew members on STS-57 and STS-60 will be
named at a later date.
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